Boring. Exciting. Yawn-worthy. Vital.

All of these describe tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s) vote-a-rama on local tax questions.

Boring because the outcomes are pretty much a foregone conclusion with little opposition to proposed tax increases.

Exciting because at least we still get to vote without producing birth certificates and marriage licenses.

And yawn-worthy because there hasn’t been much substantive debate on the merits as campaigns race toward full tweet- and yard-sign tactics with little exposition of the history and necessity of the tax increases that will set the course on policy and finances going forward.

This is ordinarily the time of year when I devote space to predicting the outcome of elections and, in the old days, inviting readers to put some cash behind their predictions. T

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